[mythtv-users] Aspire revo -- can it netboot?

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Fri Dec 4 15:00:09 UTC 2009



Misty P wrote:
> Thinking about buying an aspire revo for a new frontend.  Can't find any 
> info online on whether it support booting over the network (PXE) or not. 
> Any owners out there that can verify if it does?
> 
> My thought was to buy it, throw away the HDD, and then run it as a 
> diskless front end.
> 
> Thanks!

Absolutely yes. The Acer (*not* Asus) Aspire AR1600-U910H I've been getting 
help on the past couple of days was installed using PXE. The BIOS allows you 
to set the NIC as the boot device too.


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